Healey-Benson, Felicity, Johnson, Michael, Adams, Catherine and Turville, Joni
2022.
What is it like for a learner to participate in a Zoom breakout room session?
Presented at: 13th International Conference on Networked Learning (NLC 2022),
Sundsvall, Sweden,
16-18 May 2022.
Published in: Jaldemark, Jimmy, Håkansson Lindqvist, Marcia, Mozelius, Peter, Öberg, Lena-Marcia, de Laat, Maarten, Bonderup Dohn, Nina and Ryberg, Thomas eds.
Proceedings for the Thirteenth International Conference on Networked Learning.
Mid-Sweden University:
Networked Learning Conference Consortium,
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Abstract
Though virtual classrooms are not new, the COVID-19 pandemic sent many teachers and students online for the first time. This paper examines the use of a web-based video conferencing tool, Zoom, and in particular, the use of breakout rooms as part of a student’s learning experience. We ask: what is it like for a learner to participate in a Zoom Breakout Room session? Using Max van Manen’s (2016) phenomenology of practice, we collected learners’ lived experience descriptions of participating in a Zoom breakout room, then reflected on them phenomenologically as a way to generate new insights into this recently common online learning experience. Four moments are portrayed: a learner’s arrest at the announcement of breakout rooms; a learner’s transition into a breakout room as existential suspension; surveilling self and others in a breakout room; and exiting the breakout room as a moment of foreclosure and re-disorientation. The paper compares Zoom breakout rooms with aspects of videogaming and notices a detriment to Freirean problem-posing education if students can avoid standing, unmediated, behind just their words, even in the relative safety of a small group of peers.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Status: | In Press |
Schools: | Healthcare Sciences |
Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Zoom video-conferencing, breakout room, phenomenology of practice, Covid-19, lived experience, presence, The Pivot, small group learning, collaborative learning |
Publisher: | Networked Learning Conference Consortium |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 21 May 2022 |
Date of Acceptance: | 18 February 2022 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2022 15:30 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/149933 |
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